Frances Greville

- Bef 1633

• Name	Frances Greville
  Gender	Female
  Death	Bef 10 May 1633  [1, 2]
  Alternate death	Bef 1635  [3]
  Person ID	I28104	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of LMW
  Last Modified	23 Nov 2023

  
  

  Family 1	Nathaniel West,   b. 30 Nov 1592   d. Bef Feb 1624, Virginia (Age < 31 years)
  Marriage	1621	Virginia   [1, 3]
  Family ID	F21678	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	10 Nov 2021

  
  

  Family 2	Abraham Peirsey,   b. of Maidstone, Kent, England d. Abt 16 Jan 1628, Peirsey's Hundred, south side of the James River, Virginia
  Marriage	Between 1625 and 1626  [1, 4]
  Family ID	F16769	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	10 Nov 2021

  
  

  Family 3	Samuel Mathews   d. Bef Mar 1658, London, England
  Marriage	Aft 24 Mar 1628  [1, 3, 5]
  Children	+ 1. Francis Mathews,   b. Between 24 Mar 1628 and 1634   d. Bef 16 Feb 1675, York County, Virginia (Age ~ 46 years)   2. Samuel Mathews, Governor of Virginia,   b. Abt 1629   d. Jan 1660, Virginia (Age ~ 31 years)
  Family ID	F16766	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	12 Nov 2021

  
  

• Notes

  An unnamed writer on her WikiTree page notes the various theories that have been ventured about her origins. She could not have been the Frances Greville who was daughter of Giles Greville of Lymington (who appears in the 1623 visitation of Gloucestershire), because that Francis married (1) Giles Backhouse in Charlton Kings, Gloucestershire in 1636, and (2) Walter Currier in the same place in 1654. She was also not the daughter of Edward Greville of Nazing, Essex and his wife Jane Grey. Edward was a brother of Fulk Greville (1535-1606), who was in some way related to the wife of William Tracy, with which couple Frances Greville arrived in Virginia in 1620 on the Supply. (John Frederick Dorman, citation details below, says that Fulke Greville was an uncle of William Tracy's wife.) But the Frances Grevelle who was born to Edward Greville and Jane Grey, born in 1578, married John Chamberlain. The Wikitree writer concludes: "Another possibility for Frances's parents is the spendthrift and ultimately destitute Sir Edward Greville of Milcote and wife Joan Bromley (married 1583). This Edward Greville, second cousin and neighbor of the above-mentioned Fulk Greville, had seven daughters, three of whom never married (presumably for lack of dowries). (The names of his seven daughters are given in this old Greville genealogy. Could there have been an eighth daughter Frances who escaped a life of impoverished spinsterhood by accompanying her kinswoman, Mary (Conway) Tracy (sister-in-law of Eleanor (Greville) Conway, daughter and sister of Fulk Greville, Sr. and Jr. to Virginia?"

  
  

• Sources

  [S6108] Adventurers of Purse and Person: Virginia 1607-1624/5. Fourth edition, ed. John Frederick Dorman. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2004-07. [S6119] Virginia Immigrants and Adventurers 1607-1635: A Biographical Dictionary by Martha W. McCartney. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2007., year only. [S142] Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families by Douglas Richardson. Salt Lake City, 2013. [S142] Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families by Douglas Richardson. Salt Lake City, 2013., says "about 1626". [S6119] Virginia Immigrants and Adventurers 1607-1635: A Biographical Dictionary by Martha W. McCartney. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2007.